How do you solve a pandemic, Maria?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Adam is joined by Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, the Technical Lead on Covid-19 at the World Health Organization. And the BBC’s Stephen Nolan explains the reaction in Northern Ireland after it’s announced that schools will close from Monday.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Frankie Tobi, Ben Weisz, Jo Deahl Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, we've had lots of requests to track down the person that says this in our famous opening |
| 0:11.2 | music. |
| 0:12.2 | What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 0:17.1 | And we've tracked her down and it's Dr Maria Van Kirkove from the World Health Organization. |
| 0:22.1 | Hi, how are you? |
| 0:23.0 | I'm very well, thank you. |
| 0:25.0 | I mean this in the nicest possible way, but can you tell our listeners who you are? |
| 0:29.0 | So my name is Maria Van Kirkoff. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist working with the World Health Organization. |
| 0:37.5 | I'm in our health emergencies program and I lead a group on emerging diseases in zoonoses and for the pandemic I am the technical lead for for the |
| 0:47.2 | COVID-19 pandemic. A big job you're also the star of our podcast opening titles. |
| 0:53.2 | Did you know that? |
| 0:54.4 | I didn't know that, no. |
| 0:56.6 | No. |
| 0:57.6 | You're not going to ask for a fee, are you? |
| 0:58.6 | Because I don't know if we could afford that. |
| 1:00.6 | I should. |
| 1:01.8 | You could just donate to the Solidarity Fund that would be perfect. |
| 1:04.5 | Okay I'll see what I can do but thank you for lending us your voice but today you're going to lend us your expertise |
| 1:09.2 | and we're going to have a chat about all things COVID so thank you for doing that and could you do this do us the |
| 1:14.8 | honor of saying welcome to this edition of newscast welcome to this edition of |
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